Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone
Coherent has broken ground on an expanded manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas, to scale the production of optical components crucial for AI infrastructure. This expansion, supported by a $50 million CHIPS Act grant and a $2 billion investment from NVIDIA, aims to bolster the domestic supply chain for advanced semiconductor materials like indium phosphide. The new facility is expected to create over 550 direct jobs and thousands more indirectly, addressing the growing need for high-speed data transfer between AI components. AI
IMPACT Accelerates the domestic supply chain for critical AI optical interconnects, enabling faster and more efficient AI computation.